She's Here!!!

Madisen Marie
Born: Friday, Sept. 25, 2009
@10:33 am
7lb 8 oz. 20 1/2 inch

My little sis Karen, now a mommy!

Aunt Teri with Madisen
(I love Grandma beaming in the background!)

Proud Papa Chet
It looks like she's smiling!

She finally opened her eyes!
Look at those super duper chubby cheeks!

Welcome to the Family Madisen!

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or click on Cawley Craziness on the right side of my blog

B-E-A-utiful!

Heaven on Earth!
aka
Meadow Lake

Oh, I think I have a bite!
(He put his pole down in the bushes)

Honey in the works

Hello little boy! My name is Mr. Fish. What's your name?

O.K. dad, here's the plan:
You catch the fish and reel him in and I'll put him in my net.

Mommy! You've grown a beak!

Gavin invented a new flavored water,
it's called Chunks of Cheetos!

I'm reeling in the BIG ONE!

Our happy little family @ Meadow Lake

According to Gavin this fish is "Sleeping"

"Look mom! Snakes!"

We went for a hike and he stopped to throw the rocks he had collected in his net in the water.

Cody with his catch!

Cody on the Stairway to Heaven in Gilmore

We took a second little detour on the way home and went to see what was left of the Kilns. They were so huge, I couldn't believe it!

My Lucky Little Boy!

There are definitely perks with having your grandma work around airplanes! Grandma arranged for one of the pilots, Bruce Spaulding, to take Gavin for an airplane ride because he LOVES, LOVES, LOVES airplanes!

Gavin before the ride. We went in a Cessna 182. It's a 4-seater so we made a quick trip to Rexburg to steal daddy from his job site so that he could be with his little man for his first airplane ride. It was Bruce, Cody, Gavin & I in the plane.

Gavin all buckled in and ready to go on the "Airplane ride"

Grandma and Grandpa's House!
If you look really close there is a white speck on the right side of the sidewalk, that's Grandma watching and waving. "Hi Pompa airplane"

I sometimes get sick of people saying how beautiful Idaho is because sometimes it just seems like a big ugly dessert. I think it's because I'm too close to really see it, but after this ride I agree that Idaho really is beautiful! This is the river west of the Lorenzo bridge.

My Lucky Little Man and his mommy. It really took some coaxing to get him to take his eyes off the window and look at the camera

Daddy!
(I don't know why this turned out so dark)

Somewhere between Rigby and Ririe

Heise Hot Spings and the Snake River

The road leading to Kelly Canyon Ski Resort

Farmer in a Field

Ririe Dam and Resivoir

Farmland west of the resivoir

The booming metropolis of Ririe, Idaho

Gavin and his new best friend and personal pilot, Bruce Spaulding

Thank you Bruce he had the time of his life!!
And thank you mom for making it all possible, we love you!

P.S. That night Gavin was talking in his sleep and he kept saying "Airplane ride...airplane ride!"

Huey & Rodney

Cody and I after the Huey Lewis concert
Steve (a CRNA from work) had extra tickets to the concert and invited Cody and I to go with them. We almost bought tickets ourselves, but decided to go to Rodney instead because at the time I didn't think that I knew very many of Huey's songs, but I was wrong. I knew all of them except one and it was a 2 hour concert! Huey is headed to my IPOD!
Thanks Steve and Stacey, we had a blast!

Cody and I at the Rodney Atkins Concert on Friday night. We were on the track and really close to the stage. Cody was giving me a hard time because I kept inching my way up throughout the concert every time some one would leave or move.

Rodney
See! Wasn't the inching up worth it?

Coming soon to a theatre near you!

If this doesn't excite you...
...then click on the link below...

http://www.mtv.com/videos/movie-trailers/436357/exclusive-new-moon-trailer-premiere.jhtml#id=1621379

...if you are not excited by now, there is no hope for you!

Labor Day Weekend

Our friends Carl & Trish invited us to go to Hogle Zoo for the weekend so off we went. We left Friday night and what an adventure it was. We ended up getting dinner on the house since they lost our ticket and our dinner took forever, then Cody and Carl ended up at a rest stop bathroom peeing next to two shackled and chained convicts, and of course you can't forget our much needed stop at McDonald's for some much needed McFlurry's.

HOGLE ZOO

This eagle greeted us at the front gate of Hogle Zoo. We were all amazed. First of all we have never been so close to one and secondly we could not believe how BIG she was. Her wingspan was even more amazing. Gavin kept wanting to go back and see the bird. We did go to the bird show that they had there and that was super cool too. They had all kinds of birds and they had trained them to fly right over the audience. I could have touched them if I would have put my arm in the air, that's how close they were to us. We also ran into my cousin Tyler and his wife Tracy as we were coming out of the show. It's crazy that we had to drive all the way to Utah to see them and they only live about 15 minutes away from us!

I was teasing Cody that this was our new family picture because him and the gorilla have about the same build. He didn't think it was very funny!

It was so funny to sit and watch them. They are so much like humans is almost scary.

My own little gorilla eating a banana

This mommy Tiger had a set of boy triplets!! She is going to have her hands full. You can't really see the other two cubs, they are eating.

Gavin & Caitlyn

The new baby giraffe

Of all the animals in the zoo including the elephants, baby giraffe, baby tigers, Gavin's favorite animal (besides the eagle) was the porcupine. He was so enthralled by them. He went back three different times to see them. Who knew?

Visiting Mr. & Mrs. Porcupine once again

Cody, Gavin, Caitlyn & Carl on the Merry Go Round

Cody let Gavin pick what he wanted to ride and he chose the turkey.
Go Turkey Go!

So serious!!
I don't know if he is getting ready to ride into battle or concentrating on making a Code Brown

We couldn't leave the zoo without taking the kids on the train around the zoo. They were both so tired at that point that they almost fell asleep during the ride.

Two words: YUMMY & FUN

Going clockwise: Gavin, Teri, Cody, Sally, Brian, Caitlyn, Trish & Carl
Buca di Beppo

When we found out we were going to Utah the first thing I did was text Brian to see if they were going to be around Labor Day weekend. They live in Utah and it's been almost 3 years since we have seen them. This is also everyone (minus the kids of course) that was in our hotel room the night we got the phone call telling us that we were going to get Gavin, what a great night! We were in Canada for Brian & Sally's wedding which was the next day.
They suggested we go here and it was so yummy. We even got a tour of the kitchen and some serious humor out of some of the pictures they had hanging on the wall.

After dinner and ice cream at Leatherby's we went back to Brian and Sally's for some Wii. We did some hula hooping and the boys got into more than us girls

Brian Hula Hooping
(Sorry Brian, I uploaded this 3 times and it kept turning is sideways for some reason. You just have to be different all the time don't you!)

Cody Hula Hooping
I wish I would have had my video camera, it was hilarious, especially Brian and his hips! Whewee! Thanks for making time with us Brian and Sally. It was so good to see you again and we had a great time!

HILL AIR FORCE BASE MUSEUM

The planes were HUGE and that's an understatement!

Gavin loved the "Big Airplanes." He ran from plane to plane in awe and amazement at their gigantic size. Cody and I were even blown away. I still find it unbelievable that something so large can stay in the air and not come crashing down.